Vanderbilt University engineering professor Janey Camp has been appointed to serve on the Stormwater Management Committee for Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee.
Camp is a research associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a licensed civil engineer in Tennessee. She has expertise in infrastructure resilience and flood mitigation and response strategies.
Camp’s primary research focus is on the interaction of nature and man-made systems and improved community resilience to disruptions caused by natural hazards. Specifically, Camp’s focus is in modeling high-risk areas for future flooding and the factors that contribute to the overall impacts of those events on communities.
She recently was selected as a contributor to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a quadrennial report on the varied impacts and risks presented by global climate change across the country. The NCA5 is published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, itself a federally mandated body overseen by 13 member agencies.
The Stormwater Management Committee, a seven-member body, rules on appeals and variance requests related to the Metro Stormwater Regulations. Camp is one of four engineers on the committee and she will serve a four-year term .
Contact: Brenda Ellis, 615 343-6314
brenda.ellis@vanderbilt.edu